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by vertexFarm 8y ago
Pardon my ignorance but what is the criteria for a linux desktop being a thing? Is it a certain minimum market share? There's plenty of linux desktops out there. There is certainly a ways to go, I'm not trying to deny that, I&#x27
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by vertexFarm 8y ago
And we have plenty of data showing how this works out, latest of which might be Kansas: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kansas_Senate_Bill_Substitute_...
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by vertexFarm 8y ago
Ha just for funsies I went over there and searched "U.S. Government" and it brought me here: https://downdetector.com/status/irs I guess that's close enough.
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by vertexFarm 8y ago
Ha they're still using that red-tailed hawk sound for pretty much any appearance of a bald eagle in media. The real sound they make is so anticlimactic compared to the hawk screech, they can't ever go back. It would be too silly.
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by vertexFarm 8y ago
The certainty with which you make this statement seems undeserved. There are situations when extreme deviations from cultural norms is perfectly healthy. Like abstaining from tobacco in the 1950s or something to that effect. The jury's
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by vertexFarm 8y ago
Technically she uses original VI on a Sun Solaris. That thing is still kicking. It's delightful, really.
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by vertexFarm 8y ago
Ah I see, that makes more sense. So basically the court case looks at the pool of patents each company has, and one that has a lot of patents related to the industry it's involved in looks more legit than a potential patent troll holdi
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by vertexFarm 8y ago
Okay, I get that it adds value to the company. But what do you mean by defense? How is filing patents that you don't intend to produce so you can win legal battles any different from patent trolling?
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by vertexFarm 8y ago
This is partially the same community that thought these violations would be a good idea in the first place, as long as we get a bit of hamfisted curated content and adtech monetization. Of course some of the invested individuals still want
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by vertexFarm 8y ago
Lots of that going around these days. Always reminds me of part of the speech at the end of The Great Dictator. "We think too much and feel too little. More than machinery we need humanity. More than cleverness we need kindness and g
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by vertexFarm 8y ago
What? You're saying companies file patents on tech they don't intend on using so they don't get sued by patent trolls for their non-use of some other preexisting patent? That doesn't make sense on any level. And if you d
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by vertexFarm 8y ago
Gross. Oh well, another one for the already massive pile of unreasonably greasy facebook creeping. Massively parallel automated stalking. This shit needs to be regulated soon. A lot of the people being data-fucked are not actually people wh
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by vertexFarm 8y ago
Thank you! I personally think that mobile web and app design has been one of the greatest atrocities in tech. Not only is it trash on mobile, it's spread and made lots of sites trash on desktop as well because people seek a one-size-fi
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by vertexFarm 8y ago
I found this really frustrating. There isn't any evidence whatsoever presented here--the whole treatise is based on a single outrageously over-simplified hypothetical thought experiment, essentially a "Just-So" story. This is
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by vertexFarm 8y ago
I hear you. I'm unable to even tolerate the dystopian traffic these days. Austin is going to NIMBY itself straight to hell. Eventually the infrastructure just plain isn't going to work anymore. A breaking point exists out there an
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by vertexFarm 8y ago
I've always thought this problem was interesting and it's one of the reasons it's a real shame that amateur radio doesn't allow encrypted communications. I get that you can still do it anyways if you're willing to s
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by vertexFarm 8y ago
This is still a biased argument. Once it scales up, you'll be able to google "top causes of self-driving car accidents." They will have their own flaws and quirks that we don't anticipate yet, and we don't have any
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by vertexFarm 8y ago
Also there's a lack of compelling evidence that self-driving cars have a lot fewer accidents than people do, and this argument is always worded in a deceptive way to kind of quickly shoehorn that assumption in and hope nobody notices.
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by vertexFarm 8y ago
Absolutely. Want a computer that works like a brain? Obviously we need to know how a brain works first. We've certainly made huge strides compared to what we used to know, but as far as I'm aware we are still staggeringly far from
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by vertexFarm 8y ago
I completely disagree. We are reaching a point where it would be incredibly difficult to do more harm than inaction. If we continue the way we're going now, there is going to be a moment in the future where a thermonuclear war would ha
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by vertexFarm 8y ago
This plan isn't thought through to its conclusion. If a government is willing to illegally detail political dissidents, etc. they will certainly not mind lying about that dissident's decision for anonymity. Not like the KGB of old
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by vertexFarm 8y ago
Gonna take a wild guess how that adventure will unfold.
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by vertexFarm 8y ago
First off, this post isn't intended to encourage any illegal activity. It might have something to do with the fact that despite being free to operate above the table and having large revenue flows, user experience is often better on th
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by vertexFarm 8y ago
I was kind of concerned right off the bat with that numbered list: 1. public information should be open by default to the public in a machine-readable format, where such publication doesn’t harm privacy or security I'm sure literally e
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by vertexFarm 8y ago
Whatever's convenient to dispose of people in the way of the status quo. Remember that the feds really started rounding up pot smokers on a large scale for the first time as a way to legally get rid of Vietnam war protestors. It'l
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by vertexFarm 8y ago
It wouldn't have to be perfectly covert. Also it wouldn't have to be purposeful, spooky collusion between private and public sector from the start. That's an unfair assumption and a bit of a straw-man. What's going to ha
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by vertexFarm 8y ago
Right?? I feel like I'm losing my mind sometimes with how lax people have gotten with cybersecurity or even the most basic concepts of digital hygiene / common sense internet practices. In the nineties giving any information out o
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by vertexFarm 8y ago
I also have to wonder if any of the DDOS services used by Verizon, MPAA, and other US corporations to attack IP violators (or in Verizon's case, their own comment pages) are affected. It's illegal, but somehow it never seems to be
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by vertexFarm 8y ago
That's a pretty clumsy segue from the healthcare crisis and our eroding rights and value as workers into a tirade against PC culture there. I think isolation has lots of causes, but I don't think it's fear of those gat-derned
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by vertexFarm 8y ago
When were you born? I'm not trying to be insulting or snarky, it's just that this state of mind is so different from mine and I'm curious. I think even a lot of people who lived before smartphones and home computers have forg

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